Smashes, Thrashes & Hits
by Kiss
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Kiss bestography
Smashes, Thrashes & Hits is ranked 24th best out of 34 albums by Kiss on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Kiss is Destroyer which is ranked number 1727 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 988.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Smashes, Thrashes & Hits track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Smashes, Thrashes & Hits rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 8 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1988 | 32/83 | - |
| 2026 |  Strangel | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 88/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1988 | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 91 Music Albums of 1988 | 23/91 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1988 | 37/100 | - |
| 2019 | Strangel | Top 20 Music Albums of 1988 | 15/20 | 2 |
| 2009 |  GlennJolson | Top 49 Greatest Music Albums | 33/49 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 7 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 8 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/25/2026 16:39 | Menelao | 183 | 71/100 |
| ! | 12/24/2025 06:30 | Olli | 7,932 | 62/100 |
| ! | 09/15/2024 14:22 | Strangel | 1,010 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.4/100, a mean average of 62.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 62.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 20.4.
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Its a compilation full of great songs so what is not to like. Well, only one thing. Why a version of "Beth" with Eric Carr singing. He does it well but nowhere near as passionate as the original. The two New songs "Lets Put The X In Sex" and "You Make me Rock Hard" were good Paul Stanley songs in mode of most of his 80's work.
Why do you bother coconut? Anyway, this is a fun compilation of eighties Kiss tracks. On their individual albums some of these songs lose some of themselves, lost in a haze of a load of mediocre crap, here, the songs sound better as the quality of the whole record is better than their eighties studio efforts. Silly, disposable, but enjoyable.
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